Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 493178
GeForce 9600M GT not supported by Nouveau!
Last modified: 2009-03-31 18:35:46 EDT
Description of problem: I don't get to see the spiffy boot animation on my laptop, only the boring bars... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11 Beta Gnome LiveCD How reproducible: Run the LiveCD, boot - no spiffy boot animation!! Actual results: Boring colored overimposing bars Expected results: Spiffy animation, and smoother transitions from X to VT and back Additional info: output from lspci is 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9600M GT (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 015e Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at cc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable- Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information <?> Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?> Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?> Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?> Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb
This isn't a feature that's enabled by default as it hasn't been extensively tested, you need to add nouveau.modeset=1 to your kernel options to try it :) Have fun!